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Local veterans get help seeking work

TREASURE COAST—Veter-ans unemployment is a national problem, but that means it exists in and must be solved by local communities. Martin Veterans aims to help reduce veterans un-employment in Martin County. “We formed a committee and

exploring things that could be done,” said Ed Maxwell, first vice president of the Vietnam Veter-ans of America Chapter 1041, Stuart. The VVA is a Martin Veterans

member organization. Martin Veterans will co-host a

veterans job fair — called Vet-eran Connection — from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 17, at Indian River State College’s Wolf-High Technology Center, Chastain Campus, 2400 S.E. Salerno Road, Stuart. An expect-ed 40 or more employers will be on hand to meet with veterans seeking jobs. But, there’s more to the Veteran

Connection. Before the job fair there’ll be three workshops to help veterans compose resumes and hone their interview skills. The first workshop, will be at the Children’s Service Council of Martin County, 101 S.E. Cen-tral Parkway, Stuart. That’ll be from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sept. 27. The next two workshops will also be 1 to 4 p.m., on Oct. 4 and 11, at Workforce Solutions, 616 Central Parkway, Stuart. Those who miss the first work-

shop are welcome to attend the next two. Among those who’ll help vet-

erans build resumes and ready themselves to meet employers at the job fair are members of the Palm City Presbyterian Church’s Men’s Bible Study. Tom Lytle,

elder, said the group members wanted to help the community. Many are veterans. “We thought, since we have

business skills and have all

hired, we could help vets prepare for interviews as they seek jobs,” the Vietnam veteran said.

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Staff photo by Patrick McCallister Brent Williams spends time at the veterans room at Workforce Solutions of the Treasure Coast’s veterans room. The room is at the Port St. Lucie office, 584 N.W. University Blvd. He recently discharged from the Marine Corps and is seeking work in technology and tech security.

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Florida legislators are preparing bills for the upcoming session of the state house and senate. What veterans-related bills would you like them to introduce and pass?Send your thoughts to:[email protected]

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County Veterans Service OfficersSt. Lucie County, Wayne TeegardinPhone: (772) 337-5670Fax: (772) [email protected] J. Conrad Building(formerly the Walton Road Annex Bldg.)1664 S.E. Walton Road, Suite 205Port St. Lucie, FL 34952By appointmentMon., Tues, Thurs, Fri * 8:30 am-4:30 pmWed * 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. St. Lucie County Community Services Bldg.(Corner of Avenue D and 7th Street)437 N. Seventh St., Fort Pierce, FL 34950Walk-insMon. and Fri. * 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Brevard Veteran’s Services Office2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way,Bldg. B, Suite 102, Viera, FL 32940Office: (321) 633-2012Fax: (321) 637-5432Mon., Tues. and Thurs., 8 a.m.-4 p.m.Wed. and Fri, 8 a.m.-noonManager: Glenn McGuffieIndian River CountyJoel HermanVero Beach 2525 St. Lucie Ave.,Vero Beach, FL 32960 Ph: (772) 226-1499 Fax: (772) 770-5038Sebastian Square 11602 U.S. 1, Sebastian, FL 32958 Ph: (772) 589-6597 Fax: (772) 581-4988

Martin CountyTony Reese, Veterans Service Office SupervisorNick Ciotti, Veterans Service Officer(772) 288-5448Veterans Services OfficeMartin County Community Services435 S.E. Flagler Ave., Stuart, FL 34994Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.VA Life Insurance Ctr., Phil., PA - 1-800-669-8477 VA Regional Office - 1-800-827-1000 VA Medical Ctr, W. Palm Beach - 1-800-972-8262 Pharmacy, VA Medical Center - 1-800-317-8387 Military Retired Pay Activities, Cleveland, OH - (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force ONLY) 1-800-321-1080 Military Retired Pay Activities, Topeka, KS - (Coast Guard ONLY)1-800-772-8724 Survivor Benefits (SBP),Denver, CO - 1-800-435-3396 Stuart VA Clinic - (772) 288-0304 Okeechobee CountyVeterans Services office (863) 763-6441, Ext 5.Fax: (863) 763-0118.Orlando VA Medical Cente5201 Raymond St., Orlando, FL 32803(407) 629-1599 or (800) 922-7521Telephone Care(407) 599-1404 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon. - Fri. (800) 645-6895 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Mon - Fri (321) 637-3625 Viera patients8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Mon. - Fri. (877) 741-3400 Weekends, holidays, evenings and nights

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Help save a vet with 250-mile bike ride event to end at SEAL Museum According to a Forbes article published in February, it is believed

that an average of 22 United States veterans commit suicide every day. If that was not a shocking enough statistic to make a change on the political front, it was enough to inspire a group of local men and women to start a grassroots movement to bring awareness and raise funds to help address this growing epidemic. Former Navy SEAL Rich Graham, owner and founder of Trident

Fitness LLC, is hosting an extreme biking event to raise awareness in the local community and fight for our service men and women as they have paid the price for our freedom. On Saturday, Sept. 28, riders from across the country will be embarking on a two-day ride for a 250-mile round trip. The ride launches from the Sanford Orlando Kennel Club in Long-

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There’s wide disagreement about what the veterans unemploy-ment rate is. What’s not disputed is that veterans — particularly young veterans — are more likely to be unemployed, or underem-ployed, than their non-veter-an counterparts. Federal labor statisticians put veterans unem-ployment at about 10 percent, compared to a national average at about 7.3 percent for August. However, the Iraq and Afghan-istan Veterans of America, and some other veterans organiza-tions, hold that it’s closer to 15 percent. So, why the high unemploy-

ment? Numerous reasons are cited for

veterans unemployment. What’s generally at the center of those explanations are the all-import-ant resume and interview. “A lot of veterans can’t trans-

late their skills into the civilian world,” said Jose Tabar, veter-ans employment representative, Workforce Solutions of the Trea-sure Coast. “They don’t realize in the outside world, you get paid for those skills.” In short, many veterans are in-

ept at speaking civilian job skills. Conversely, a number of hiring managers don’t speak military. In other words, they don’t under-stand how military experiences translate to job skills. “There’s an example of, ‘Have

you ever done structured pre-sentations?,’” Tabar said. “In the military, the junior doesn’t even think about it. It’s just, ‘They asked me to show some new recruits something and I did.’ It gets lost in translation. The man-ager is thinking one thing, and the veteran says, ‘Oh, that’s not

what he’s looking for.’’” Lytle said the Men’s Bible Study

members have helped veterans learn to speak civilian workplace. “Our group had worked with

Workforce Solutions on one or two occasions,” he said. “We went over there and did mock inter-

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views, looked at resumes and talked about their career goals. We’d look at what they did in the military.” In addition to learning to speak

civilian workplace, Lytle said many young veterans need help with self-evaluation and –expres-sion. “We’ll sit with them and ask

what their objectives are,” he said. “Find out a little about them. What they do well. What they like to do. Then we’ll look at their resumes and see if they reflect what they’re telling us.” Frank Tidikis, treasurer of the

local VVA, said Martin Veterans is also finding out which local businesses speak military. “No one has a listing of veter-

an-owned businesses in the com-munity,” he said.Tidikis said volunteers are call-

ing the about 2,500 businesses in Martin County to find out if they’re veteran-owned or –man-aged. Martin Veteran will pub-lish a directory to veteran owned businesses when that’s done. Maxwell, who owns Comput-

er Station in Stuart, said he’s always been happy with veterans he’s employed. “They’re a good hire,” he said.

“Usually they’re far more disci-plined than the guy off the street.

They know that there’s a mission and a mission needs to be done.”Tabar said veterans throughout

the Treasure Coast have resourc-es at Workforce Solutions many don’t know about.“In Port St. Lucie, we actually

have a resource room,” Tabar said. “It’s got 14 computers and it’s just for veterans.” That office is at 584 N.W. Uni-

versity Blvd. Tabar said Workforce Solutions

has five veterans representatives. “We go to the employers and try

to get them to open jobs to veter-ans,” he said. Martin Veterans is a collab-

orative project started with a $21,000 federal grant by the United Way’s Martin Volunteers. The Business Development Board of Martin County, Indian Riv-er State College and Workforce Solutions are among participating organizations.

For more about Martin Veterans, visit martinveterans.org. Work-force Solutions is on the web at yourworkforcesolutions.com. The phone number is (866) 482-4473.Palm City Presbyterian Church’s

Men’s Bible Study is on Thursday mornings, 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. To find out more, visit palmcitypres.org.

Photo by Patrick McCallister From left to right, Jose Tabar helps Edwin Reyes seek industrial work as Brent Williams looks for a job in tech security. Workforce Solutions of the Treasure Coast has a veterans room at it’s Port St. Lucie office, 584 N.W. University Blvd.


Old soldier fades away“Old soldiers never die…” John Haynes delivered the news

to the Florida Veterans Council at its last regular meeting, Thurs-day, Sept. 19. The chairman and CEO of the Florida Veterans Foundation is retiring at the be-ginning of October. “He leaves a legacy of sweat and

blood that’ll be hard to follow,” Bill Vagianos, the foundation’s District 5 director, said. District 5 covers most of East

Central Florida, including Bre-vard and Indian River counties. Vagianos is also president of Bre-vard Veterans Council. The Florida Legislature created

the foundation in 2008. It’s a direct support organization for the Florida Department of Veter-ans Affairs. It’s incorporated as a not-for-profit organization to help the department assist veterans. Among other things, it gives direct financial assistance to vet-erans. Vagianos said the Brevard Veterans Council has approached the foundation for help financially

assisting veterans. “We go to the foundation only if

we need those funds,” he said. The foundation gets no funding

from the state or federal govern-ments. It operates completely on donations. By the end of the 2012-2013 fiscal year, June 30, the foundation gave about $81,000 in direct financial help to veterans, along with another $13,000 for personal items that were often distributed at stand downs. The foundation got 339 requests for help last fiscal year. It approved 129 of the requests. Additionally, the foundation

produces the Florida Veterans Benefit Guide. It paid about $20,000 for printing and shipping them last fiscal year. Haynes told Veteran Voice the foundation also keeps equipment to help those putting on stand downs. “We have tents, mostly tents, to

lend them for stand downs,” he said. Haynes said he took the helm

at the foundation in July, 2010. He was the state commander of the Disabled American Veterans Department of Florida in ‘06-‘07, among many other credits. Haynes was in the Marine Corps

from 1945 to 1975. Among other medals, the Major was awarded the Silver Star during the Viet-nam War. The Florida native has been

a DAV service officer for about three decades. He intends to con-tinue that work and continue to volunteer consulting services to the foundation. “I’ll be doing a little bit of it,” he

said. “I’m almost 84 years old. How much longer I spend doing it — I guess that depends on the good Lord.” Vagianos said Robert “Bob”

Milligan got the foundation off to a good start as its first chairman and CEO, but much of its work was constricted to the Tallahas-see area. He said Haynes con-tinued and greatly expanded the momentum Milligan started. “John (Haynes) wanted to ex-

pand the services across the state and appointed district directors,” he said. The two met in 1999, when Va-

gianos was working as a psychol-ogist the Department of Veterans Affairs. Haynes was doing veter-ans services officer work. “Even then he had an unwav-

ering commitment to veterans,

to service to veterans,” Vagianos said. The foundation received some of

the proceeds from the state’s vet-erans- and military-oriented spe-cialty license plate sales for four years. That funding ended last year. Haynes said the foundation got a great boost earlier this year

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our efforts and most importantly to give them hope, support, and sac-rifice in any way we can to bring a spotlight to their challenges. If our ride will afford even one soldier to get support from the ORW program, then our ride will have been a success,” Rich Graham said. In order to participate as a volunteer or be a rider or enter a teams,

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$350,000 (in donations),” he said. “We had one large donation.” That was $300,000 from the

Republican Party of Florida. The party learned that it’d received about $270,000 from the Jack-sonville based Allied Veterans of the World. Law enforcers accused the not-for-profit organization of operating an illegal gambling ring through its many Internet cafes, and arrested about 60. Haynes said that the foundation

has a few fundraising programs in the works that he expects will do very well. “Our fundraising ability, we’re

rapidly increasing that,” he said. “We expect to double, quadru-ple our fundraising efforts and results in the next year.”Haynes said that Washington

Sanchez will become the chair-man after he departs in October. To learn more about the founda-

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contracts under PCCC, one to Health Net Federal Services LLC and another to TriWest Health-care Alliance Corp. These compa-nies will set up networks in six re-gions covering the entire country.

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